Mausoleum of Theodoric, Ravenna

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	Outside the city, near the cemetery reserved for the Goths, Theodoric erected the 520 to his mausoleum, which is still isolated in the immediate vicinity of the center of Ravenna. First, it differs from all other buildings of Ravenna to the fact that it is not built of bricks, but with blocks of Istrian stone. It is a central plan, taking the other type of Roman mausoleums, and is characterized by two kinds: one is externally decagonal with niches on each side, covered by solid arcs, while the interior is cruciform, and the second is more small and was once surrounded by an ambulatory, which remain only traces of nell'attaccatura arches on the wall, and is shaped circular inside and outside in decagonal, where he had placed the sarcophagus containing the remains of Theodoric. The most striking features of the building are made from the ceiling, where there is a single huge monolith in the shape of the shell, carried by sea and hoisted on the building with twelve handles, and where there is a decorative band with a purpose "pincer" The only witness to Ravenna a decoration rather than derived from goldsmith barbaric footage from the Roman / Byzantine Empire.

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